'Europe has more military potential than Russia: We are only scared to the degree we are unprepared'

10/06/2025 11:56 France 24

Russia launched almost 500 drones at Ukraine in the biggest overnight drone bombardment of the three-year war, the Ukrainian air force said Monday, as the Kremlin presses its summer offensive amid direct peace talks that have yet to deliver progress on stopping the fighting. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on Russia's brutal war of attrition, FRANCE 24's Eve Irvine welcomes Lieutenant General Michel Yakovleff, Professor at Sciences-Po and Former Vice-Chief of Staff at NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).

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NATO chief in Rome for key Ukraine talks

NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte was in Rome on Thursday where he will attend the "Weimar Plus” ministerial meeting on Ukraine and EU security. France 24's correspondent Seema Gupta has the latest....

12/06/2025 08:57 France 24

Syria returns offer 'ray of hope' as wars displace 122 million people worldwide

The number of people displaced by war and persecution around the world remained "untenably high" at above 122 million this year due to longstanding conflicts such as those in Sudan and Ukraine, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday, though the return of almost two million Syrians displaced by the...

12/06/2025 06:12 France 24

Trump caught lying about date of phone call to Governor Gavin Newsom

US President Donald Trump has attempted to one-up California Governor Gavin Newsom in their war of words, by releasing his own screenshots to Fox News to "prove" the pair had spoken on the phone on Monday. However his own call log proved he was in the wrong, with no phone call occurring on that dat...

11/06/2025 19:44 France 24

Clothes at what cost? French fast fashion bill puts onus on Chinese brands

How to stop our needless overconsumption of cheaper and cheaper clothes that pollute the planet? France's Senate has just passed a bill to curb advertising and tax pollution of fast fashion, with lawmakers even talking up the distinction of ultra-fast fashion: garments made in a hurry – increa...

11/06/2025 18:17 France 24

'The two-state solution is going to happen': Israel’s Olmert and ex-Palestinian FM Qudwa

Speaking together on FRANCE 24, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and former Palestinian foreign minister Nasser al-Qudwa defended their vision of a two-state solution despite the devastating war in Gaza. Olmert accused Israel of waging a war with "no legitimacy" since expanding the conflic...

11/06/2025 14:33 France 24

Iran says it will target US bases if conflict breaks out over nuclear enrichment

Iran said on Wednesday it would target US military bases if conflict breaks out between the two countries over Iran's nuclear enrichment program. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Washington "cannot have a say" on the issue, as US President Donald Trump threatened that the US could...

11/06/2025 13:31 France 24

US, China say high-level talks yield 'framework' for trade deal

Amid ongoing tensions between the world's two biggest economies, the US and China on Tuesday announced that two days of high-level talks had yielded a "framework" to reach an agreement on trade, centering rare earth minerals and their escalating tariffs war....

11/06/2025 04:06 France 24

Deadly Russian strikes hit Kharkiv as Ukraine brings home bodies of 1,212 soldiers

Russia kept up its relentless air offensive over Kharkiv early Wednesday, killing three people and injuring at least 60, as Kyiv reiterated its plea for Western allies to pressure Russia into accepting an unconditional ceasefire. Ukrainian officials said Moscow had returned the bodies of more than...

11/06/2025 03:59 France 24

Israeli ministers sanctioned by UK and other countries over West Bank incitement

Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway on Tuesday ordered sanctions against two hard-line Israeli ministers, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, for "repeated incitements of violence" against Palestinians, upping their condemnation of Israel...

10/06/2025 21:45 France 24

EU unveils 18th round of sanctions against Russia

The European Union has proposed a new round of sanctions against Russia, which include a ban on the use of the Nord Stream underwater pipelines between Russia and Germany and the addition of 77 more vessels to the blacklist of the so-called "shadow fleet" of tankers carrying Russian oil. Plus, Euro...

10/06/2025 20:56 France 24

'Naive attempt at total peace: Colombians pin blame on Petro's feckless policies on security, peace'

Colombia was shaken Tuesday by 19 coordinated bomb and gun attacks across the southwest, leaving at least seven dead and escalating the nation's security crisis. The violence followed an attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in Bogotá, stoking fears of a return to the brutal era of t...

10/06/2025 20:36 France 24

European boost to Ukraine defense may come too late if US drops support, analyst fears

FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, about the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. He says that Russian President Vladimir Putin is 'not feeling any heat from Washington' and that he fears that any plans to boost defense systems with E...

10/06/2025 19:11 France 24

Israeli ministers sanctioned, Netanyahu faces confidence vote

Britain and four allies joined forces Tuesday to sanction two Israeli ministers for "repeated incitements of violence" against Palestinians, upping their condemnation of Israel's actions around the war in Gaza. The move comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a vote to dissolve par...

10/06/2025 18:53 France 24

🌟The Bright Side: Ancient tomb complex discovered as Syria clears war rubble

A contractor found an underground Byzantine tomb believed to be more than 1,500 years old beneath the rubble of a war-damaged house in northern Syria. Since the fall of former Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad, residents are now returning and beginning to rebuild the places looted and demolished dur...

10/06/2025 16:27 France 24

Russia and Ukraine complete second round of ongoing prisoner swap

Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday exchanged more prisoners of war as part of a large-scale swap agreed by both countries at peace talks in Istanbul. Neither side said how many soldiers were freed in the second round of the exchange....

10/06/2025 15:49 France 24

Kyiv and Odesa hit in deadly Russian drone attacks on Ukraine

Russia launched more than 300 drones on Ukraine overnight, killing at least two people according to local officials. The strikes, which damaged parts of the capital and hit a maternity ward in Odesa, followed on from Moscow's biggest drone assault on its neighbour on Monday. The Kremlin says it's i...

10/06/2025 14:54 France 24

Sudanese doctors on mission to rebuild Mycetoma Research Centre

The war in Sudan has led to the total or partial destruction of clinics and hospitals, but health professionals are determined to rebuild what has been lost. Among them are scientists researching and treating mycetoma, a rare but devastating fungal disease. The Mycetoma Research Centre (MRC) in Kh...

10/06/2025 14:52 France 24

Israel deports Greta Thunberg and other activists after Gaza-bound ship was seized

Israel deported activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, the country's Foreign Ministry said, a day after the Gaza-bound ship she was on with other activists was seized by the Israeli military. She left on a flight to France and was then headed to her home country of Sweden. Thunberg was one of 12 passe...

10/06/2025 14:47 France 24

The Maldives, a paradise threatened by rising sea levels

The Maldives, a dream destination in the Indian Ocean that's popular with tourists from around the world, is threatened by rising sea levels – a direct consequence of climate change. Scientists warn the archipelago could even disappear by the end of the century. The country is building artific...

10/06/2025 12:54 France 24

Strong tourist activity in Beirut despite the war with Israel

Despite the recent war with Israel and political tensions in Lebanon, activity at Beirut Airport is on the rise, the highest in years. Security measures have been significantly enhanced to ensure the safety of travelers, tourism is therefore resuming, as explained by FRANCE 24's correspondent in th...

10/06/2025 10:02 France 24

Young soldiers freed in Russia-Ukraine exchange, but many still missing

This Monday, following a delay over the weekend, the large-scale prisoner of war exchange agreed upon by Russia and Ukraine last week in Istanbul began to take place. Approximately fifty soldiers, all aged 25 and under, were released. While this brought moments of joy to them and their families, ou...

10/06/2025 10:01 France 24

Russia carries out 'massive' drone attacks on Kyiv, Odesa

Days after it launched its largest drone offensive since the start of its three year-long invasion of Ukraine, Russia pummeled the Ukraine capital Kyiv and the port city of Odesa early Tuesday, killing one person, as talks between the two countries fail to yield a path towards a ceasefire....

10/06/2025 03:29 France 24

Kenyan blogger dies in police custody

In tonight's edition: Authorities claim that a Kenyan man, who died in a police station after criticising a senior police officer, hit his own head. Also, days after pulling Wagner mercenaries out of Mali, Russia says it wants to deepen security ties with Africa. Plus world leaders, scientists a...

09/06/2025 20:45 France 24

UN Ocean Conference in Nice: Stark warnings on ocean conservation

World leaders gather in Nice for UN Ocean Conference. Callum Roberts, chief scientist at Convex Carbon Seascape, is with us....

09/06/2025 15:43 France 24

Ocean warriors: The race to save seahorses, seagrass and flat oysters

As the UN Ocean Conference kicks off in Nice, we're focusing on seagrass meadows: vital climate allies that are among the least protected ecosystems on Earth. They store more CO2 per hectare than land forests and are home to vulnerable species like seahorses. Yet nearly 30 percent of these underwa...

09/06/2025 14:27 France 24

'Netanyahu very cynically exploiting the situation: Israeli PM staying in power by sowing division'

Israeli left-wing opposition leader Yair Golan called for an immediate end to the Gaza war and said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government no longer represented most Israelis. This after former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered scathing criticism in Haaretz for Netanyahu and...

09/06/2025 14:22 France 24

Syria's national unity plan after years of civil war : Aleppo as a case study

Syria’s national unity plan aims to rebuild trust, governance, and social cohesion in the aftermath of years of civil conflict. Aleppo, once the country's economic hub and a focal point of the war, serves as a key case study in this effort....

09/06/2025 14:18 France 24

Ukraine and Russia swap first prisoners in large-scale exchange

Ukraine and Russia on Monday swapped captured soldiers as part of an exchange that will continue "over the coming days", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. The prisoner swap was the only tangible agreement to come from peace talks between the two countries in early June....

09/06/2025 12:21 France 24

'Most' Israelis believe military operation in Gaza is purely for 'political' purposes

After 20 months of war waged in Gaza, and Hamas considerably weakened, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert joins FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee to follow up on his scathing criticism in Haaretz of Netanyahu and Israel's ever-expanding war in Gaza. "What is the military achievement that justifies the e...

09/06/2025 11:05 France 24

Russia fires record 479 drones at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv says

Russia fired a record 479 drones at Ukraine in an overnight aerial barrage, Kyiv's air force said on Monday, the latest massive attack as Moscow rejects calls for a ceasefire. ...

09/06/2025 10:14 France 24

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